Targeting the Hezbollah terrorist leader. Israel strikes Hezbollah headquarters in Beirut, IDF says The target of the Israeli strike on Beirut was Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah, Fox News has learned https://www.foxnews.com/world/israel-strikes-hezbollah-headquarters-beirut-idf-says
The residents of Lebanon are sick and tired of Hezbollah. They are now out in the streets kicking their "all powerful" rears.
Israeli airstrikes rock Beirut, targeting Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah By Bassem Mroue September 28, 2024 The Israeli military has struck Hezbollah’s headquarters in Beirut in a series of massive explosions that targeted the leader of the militant group and levelled multiple high-rise apartment buildings. The biggest blast to hit the Lebanese capital in the past year appeared likely to push the escalating conflict closer to full-fledged war. At least six people were killed and 91 were wounded, Lebanon’s Health Ministry said. Hezbollah’s head Hassan Nasrallah was unreachable following Israel’s strike, a source close to the Lebanese armed group told Reuters. Hezbollah leader Sheik Hassan Nasrallah in 2015.Credit: AP Hours after the strikes, Hezbollah had not made a statement on his fate. A source close to Hezbollah told Reuters Nasrallah was alive and Iran’s Tasnim news agency also reported he was safe. A senior Iranian security official told Reuters Tehran was checking his status. Nasrallah was the target of the strikes on the group’s headquarters, according to two people familiar with the matter who requested anonymity, including one US official. Israel's military claims it's almost completely dismantled Hezbollah's leadership, after a deadly strike in Beirut killed dozens. The Israeli army declined to comment on who it was targeting. It was not immediately clear if Nasrallah was at the site, and Hezbollah did not comment on the report. The death toll is likely to rise significantly as teams are still combing through the rubble of six buildings. Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi said Iran would be “on the side of Lebanon and resistance by all means” and accused the US of complicity. “Just this morning, the Israeli regime used several 5000-pound bunker busters that had been gifted to them by the United States to hit residential areas in Beirut,” he told a UN Security Council meeting on the Middle East. US Defence Secretary Lloyd Austin said he did not have any advanced warning of the strikes. He declined to offer any assessment of the strike, amid speculation about Nasrallah’s fate. Austin said he would be speaking with Israeli Defence Minister Yoav Gallant again “soon” for an update. US President Joe Biden has directed the Pentagon to “assess and adjust as necessary US force posture” in the Middle East, the White House said. “He has also directed his team to ensure that US embassies in the region take all protective measures as appropriate.” After the strikes, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu abruptly cut short a visit to the United States to return home. Hours earlier, he addressed the UN, vowing that Israel’s intensified campaign against Hezbollah over the past two weeks would continue – further dimming hopes for an internationally backed ceasefire. News of the blasts came as Netanyahu was briefing reporters after his UN address. A military aide whispered into his ear, and Netanyahu quickly ended the briefing. Smoke rises from Israeli airstrikes in Beirut on Friday.Credit: AP Israeli army spokesman Rear Admiral Daniel Hagari said the strikes targeted the main Hezbollah headquarters, saying it was located underground beneath residential buildings. The series of blasts at around nightfall reduced six apartment towers to rubble in Haret Hreik, a densely populated, predominantly Shiite district of Beirut’s Dahiyeh suburbs, according to Lebanon’s national news agency. A wall of billowing black and orange smoke rose into the sky as windows were rattled and houses shaken some 30 kilometres north of Beirut. The Health Ministry reported two people killed and 76 others wounded but said the figure was likely to rise as first responders were still searching under the rubble. Footage showed rescue workers clambering over large slabs of concrete, surrounded by high piles of twisted metal and wreckage. Several craters were visible, one with a car toppled into it. A stream of residents carrying their belongings were seen fleeing along a main road out of the district. Israel provided no immediate comment about the type of bomb or how many it used but the resulting explosion levelled an area greater than a city block. The Israeli army has in its arsenal 2000-pound (900-kilogram) American-made “Bunker Buster” guided bombs designed specifically for hitting subterranean targets. A man reacts at the site of an Israeli airstrike in Beirut’s southern suburbs on Friday.Credit: AP Richard Weir, crisis and weapons researcher with Human Rights Watch, said the blasts were consistent with that class of bomb. Israel’s air forces followed with a new set of strikes early on Saturday shortly after an Israeli military spokesman warned residents of three buildings to evacuate, saying they were being used by Hezbollah. To a degree unseen in past conflicts, Israel this past week has aimed to eliminate Hezbollah’s senior leadership. But an attempt to assassinate Nasrallah – successful or not – would be a major escalation. Nasrallah has been in hiding for years, very rarely appearing in public. He regularly gives speeches, but always by video from unknown locations. The site hit on Friday evening (Beirut time) had not been publicly known as Hezbollah’s main headquarters, though it is located in the group’s “security quarters”, a heavily guarded part of Haret Hreik where it has offices and runs several nearby hospitals. Four hours after the strike, Hezbollah had still not issued any statement referring to it. Instead, it announced that it had launched a salvo of rockets at the Israeli city of Safed, which it said was “in defence of Lebanon and its people, and in response to the barbaric Israeli violation of cities, villages and civilians”. The Israeli military said a house and a car in Safed were hit, without providing details. The Israeli army later warned residents to evacuate three buildings in other southern Beirut neighbourhoods, saying it was about to strike them because Hezbollah was using them to hide weapons. Israel dramatically intensified its airstrikes in Lebanon this week, saying it is determined to put an end to more than 11 months of Hezbollah fire into its territory. The escalated campaign has killed more than 720 people in Lebanon, including dozens of women and children, according to Health Ministry statistics. A predawn strike on Friday in the mainly Sunni border town of Chebaa killed nine members of the same family, the state news agency said. At the UN, Netanyahu vowed to “continue degrading Hezbollah” until Israel achieves its goals. His comments dampened hopes for a US-backed call for a 21-day truce between Israel and Hezbollah to allow time for a diplomatic solution. Hezbollah has not responded to the proposal. Iranian-backed Hezbollah, the strongest armed force in Lebanon, began firing rockets into Israel almost immediately after Hamas’ October 7 attack, saying it was a show of support for the Palestinians. Since then, it and the Israeli military have traded fire almost daily, forcing tens of thousands of people to flee their homes on both sides of the border. An Israeli security official said he expected the campaign against Hezbollah would not last for as long as the current war in Gaza because the military’s goals were much narrower. In Gaza, Israel aims to dismantle Hamas’ military and political regime, but the goal in Lebanon is to push Hezbollah away from the border – “not a high bar like Gaza” in terms of operational objectives, said the official, who spoke on the condition of anonymity due to military briefing guidelines. The Israeli military said it carried out dozens of strikes around the south on Friday, targeting Hezbollah rocket launchers and infrastructure. It said Hezbollah fired a volley of rockets toward the northern Israeli city of Tiberias. In the southern Lebanese city of Tyre, civil defence workers pulled the bodies of two women – 35-year-old Hiba Ataya and her mother Sabah Olyan – from the rubble of a building brought down by a strike. “That’s Sabah, these are her clothes, my love,” one man cried out as her body emerged. Israel says its accelerated strikes this week have already inflicted heavy damage on Hezbollah’s weapons capabilities and its fighters. But the group boasted a large arsenal of rockets and missiles and its remaining capacities remain unknown. Hezbollah officials and their supporters remain defiant. Not long before the explosions on Friday evening, thousands massed in another part of Beirut’s suburbs for the funeral of three Hezbollah members killed in earlier strikes, including the head of the group’s drone unit, Mohammed Surour. Men and women in the giant crowd waved their fists in the air and chanted, “We will never accept humiliation” as they marched behind the three coffins, wrapped in the group’s yellow flag. Hussein Fadlallah, Hezbollah’s top official in Beirut, said in a speech that no matter how many commanders Israel kills, the group has endless numbers of experienced fighters. He vowed that Hezbollah will keep fighting until Israel stops its offensive in Gaza. “We will not abandon the support of Palestine, Jerusalem and oppressed Gaza,” Fadlallah said. “There is no place for neutrality in this battle.” Reuters and AP
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Israel’s rejection of Lebanon truce proposal highlights US shrinking influence in Mideast The White House expressed frustration at the rejection, saying the truce proposal had taken “a lot of care and effort.” Friday 27/09/2024 https://thearabweekly.com/israels-r...sal-highlights-us-shrinking-influence-mideast Protesters take part in a rally against Israeli military actions in Lebanon in front of the White House in Washington, September 24, 2024. AFP BEIRUT/JERUSALEM – Israel rejected global calls on Thursday for a ceasefire with the Hezbollah movement, defying its biggest ally in Washington and pressing ahead with strikes that have killed hundreds in Lebanon and heightened fears of an all-out regional war. Despite Israel’s stance, the US and France sought to keep prospects alive for an immediate 21-day truce they proposed on Wednesday, and said negotiations continued, including on the sidelines of a United Nations meeting in New York. The White House expressed frustration at the rejection, saying the truce proposal had taken “a lot of care and effort.” Washington also insisted the truce plan had been “coordinated” with Israel. “We wouldn’t have made that statement, we wouldn’t have worked on that if we didn’t have reason to believe that the conversations that we were having with the Israelis in particular, were supportive of the goal there,” National Security spokesman John Kirby said in a statement Thursday. Speaking in Canada where he met Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, who also backed the ceasefire, French President Emmanuel Macron noted that the ceasefire plan had been prepared with Israeli Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu himself. Macron seemed to be reluctantly coming to terms with France’s growing marginalisation on the world scene since the Gaza war and called on Washington to take the lead on Lebanon. “I do believe that the US now has to increase the pressure on the prime minister of Israel to do so,” he said. Top Israeli officials have on Thursday rejected the proposal for a ceasefire with Hezbollah. Netanyahu said his government had not even responded to the proposal and instead ordered the military to “continue fighting with full force” against Hezbollah. With the clock ticking on his administration, US President Joe Biden faces an arc of Middle East crises likely to defy solution before he leaves office in January and which look all but certain to tarnish his foreign policy legacy, analysts and foreign diplomats say. Biden has struggled over the past year to thread the needle of embracing Israel’s “right to self-defence” against Palestinian Hamas militants in Gaza and the Hezbollah group in Lebanon while trying to contain civilian casualties and prevent a spiral into a broader Middle East conflict. Time and again he has confronted the shortcomings of that strategy, the latest being Israel’s rejection on Thursday of a US-backed proposal for a 21-day truce across the Lebanon border as it pressed ahead with strikes that have killed hundreds of Lebanese. “What we’re seeing are the limits of US power and influence in the Middle East,” said Jonathan Panikoff, the US government’s former deputy national intelligence officer for the region. Perhaps the clearest example of that trend has been Biden’s reluctance to exercise much US leverage, as Israel’s top arms supplier and diplomatic shield at the United Nations, to bend Netanyahu to Washington’s will. Israel said on Thursday it had secured an $8.7 billion aid package from the United States to support its ongoing military efforts and to maintain a military edge in the region. Asked about “red lines” for US support to Israel, US Defence Secretary Lloyd Austin told reporters that the United States would not change its commitment to help Israel protect itself. He echoed US calls for a ceasefire and a diplomatic solution to the crisis but made no hint of Washington possibly pressuring Israel to accept a truce in Gaza and Lebanon. “We’ve been committed from the very beginning to help Israel, provide the things that are necessary for them to be able to protect their sovereign territory and that hasn’t changed and won’t change in the future,” Austin said after a meeting in London with his British and Australian counterparts. Austin pointed out that there was a risk of all-out war between Hezbollah and Israel but added that a diplomatic solution was still viable without mentioning Israel’s rebuff of the latest US push for a ceasefire in Lebanon. Israel has vowed to use “all means” secure its north and return thousands of citizens to communities there, who have evacuated since Hezbollah launched a campaign of cross-border strikes last year in solidarity with Palestinian militants fighting in Gaza . The trajectory of the Lebanon conflict could have further implications not only for Biden’s legacy but by extension the presidential campaign of Vice President Kamala Harris, analysts say. Some Democratic progressive voters are already angry over unflinching US support for Israel. It remains to be seen whether Netanyahu will heed Biden’s entreaties to avoid further escalation in Lebanon. As a lame duck president in his final four months in office, Biden is not expected to achieve any breakthroughs to contain Middle East turmoil, bequeathing instead the current crises to his successor.
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Biden told allies that Netanyahu doesn’t want to end fighting in Lebanon After a week of back and forth with Israel that increasingly frustrated Biden, Israel launched a massive strike against Hezbollah targeting the group’s leader. Smoke rises from the smouldering rubble as people gather at the scene of Israeli air strikes in the Haret Hreik neighbourhood of Beirut's southern suburbs on Sept. 27, 2024. | Ibrahim Amro/AFP via Getty Images By Jonathan Lemire, Robbie Gramer, Erin Banco and Nahal Toosi https://www.politico.com/news/2024/09/27/israel-targeted-hezbollah-nasrallah-beirut-bombing-00181439 09/27/2024 President Joe Biden told confidantes and allies this week that he did not believe that Israeli leader Benjamin Netanyahu wanted a halt to hostilities with Hezbollah, expressing increasing frustration as a proposed cease-fire plan fell apart, according to two people familiar with the conversations. One person who spoke with Biden said the president felt Netanyahu had humiliated both Secretary Antony Blinken and Biden himself with his back-and-forth about a cease-fire proposal with Hezbollah. Netanyahu at first told U.S. officials he supported a pause in fighting with the Lebanon-based militant group, then roundly rejected the cease-fire proposal once it was made public.